Highway Range

[Marc]

You will have no issues. You should get between 200 and 250 depending on how you drive and what accessory features you are running.

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[Hammick]

Depends on how fast you drive what range you can get. At 70 without a headwind, expect around 270 miles fully charged.

You're going to have to charge at least once.

I hope you have the Tesla adapter. It gives you a lot more options.

Fast charging doesn't seem to hurt the battery much. But if it did, it would take a lot of fast charging before you noticed anything.

270 miles is asking to get stranded on the side of the road. OP with a 10mph headwind you should expect about 1.7 - 1.8 mi/kwh at 70 mph. That's 200 miles if you get 1.7 and want to arrive at the charger with 10% SOC left (131 x 90% x 1.7).

And don't charge above 80% at a DCFC unless you have to. Charging above 80% takes forever.

Our '22 Lariat ER has seen a lot of DCFC and Carscanner is showing the battery state of health at 98%.

The Lightning is a great road-tripper if decent chargers are spaced every 140 miles or less and you aren't in a hurry. It's pretty inefficient and isn't going to win any charging speed awards. But it rides like a dream, is very quiet and can carry a ton of stuff.

 

[Mashedtators]

Drive 65, with the headwind that is 75mph.

can you explain this more?

 

[bryce]

The biggest enemy of range I have in Oregon is the mountains. Always scary to watch the range tick down quickly going uphill to ski. Comforting to see that range then jump back up going down hill.

The advice on finding a functioning DC charging station is key. There are lots of options in my area, and the NACS adapter opened up the additional network.

The first time I tried a DC charger the station was throwing an error. Moved to another stall and worked find. A good recommendation from a friend was to try a few chargers, different systems, around town to see what the various systems are like and what sort of foibles they have.

And having plug-to-charge on the Blue Oval network makes things so easy.

 

[potato]

can you explain this more?

With the head wind, the aerodynamic drag is equivalent to driving 75 MPH.

But it's worse than actually driving 75 MPH with no head wind for efficiency, because you're only covering 65 miles in an hour while still using significantly more energy.

 

[Heliian]

can you explain this more?

From the op:

with a possible 10 mph head wind.

I have started checking wind speeds on long trips. I use AA and all you have to do is ask google for "whatevercity wind speeds". It usually tells the info, except for Barrie, it said 120kmh. I laughed as it was giving me the info for hurricane Barry, I had to specify the province(Ontario) that time.

 

[RickLightning]

With the head wind, the aerodynamic drag is equivalent to driving 75 MPH.

But it's worse than actually driving 75 MPH with no head wind for efficiency, because you're only covering 65 miles in an hour while still using significantly more energy.

Right. Simple physics / math. 10 mile wind pushing against you. If you drive 65, the energy required is approximately the same as driving 75mph.

 

[Steddingbear]

Optimistic or not, it's my real world results. I routinely drive from Toronto to London, Sarnia, Niagara, Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa and that is the average that I get. I do have 1PD off during my time on the highway so I do coast when needed. Also have the heat going for most of my trips too. We'll see how things change as the weather warms up, hopefully the numbers look better.

Does using the one pedal use more energy?

 

[jetfixr1]

Does using the one pedal use more energy?

No. Assuming you dont use your brakes, 1 PD is the most energy efficient. Bonus efficiency if you can feather the throttle and learn to coast in 1PD.

 

[RickLightning]

In fact, all drive modes are the same efficiency.

 

[Athrun88]

Does using the one pedal use more energy?

Not really, I turn it off for highway driving so I'm not constantly showing my brake lights when letting off the throttle.

 

[flyct]

Not really, I turn it off for highway driving so I'm not constantly showing my brake lights when letting off the throttle.

Showing brake light doesn't necessarily indicate that your friction brakes are engaged. Brake lights also come on when only regenerative braking is engaged, which allows any following traffic to be made aware that you are decelerating.

 

[Athrun88]

Showing brake light doesn't necessarily indicate that your friction brakes are engaged. Brake lights also come on when only regenerative braking is engaged, which allows any following traffic to be made aware that you are decelerating.

That's why I choose to coast on the highway. Car behind me might misunderstand thinking that I'm brake checking them instead of letting go of my throttle enough to trigger the brake lights. Crazy people on the road these days and I'd rather not get shot.

 

[RickLightning]

That's why I choose to coast on the highway. Car behind me might misunderstand thinking that I'm brake checking them instead of letting go of my throttle enough to trigger the brake lights. Crazy people on the road these days and I'd rather not get shot.

The only way to "coast" and assure that you don't have brake lights come on is by shifting to N, which is never recommended as a drive mode.

I do nothing special, and my lifetime is also 1.8.

 

[Athrun88]

I'm fairly sure brake lights do not engage if you let off the throttle and have 1PD off. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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